Word: nasserism
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Your account of the murderous assault attempted on Mr. Rountree leads me to think that any day now we will be able to persuade the Iraqis to accept a generous contribution from us. Just to keep them friendly, you know (and out of the lap of the Russians)-like Nasser (whose trained mobs stoned Americans passing out free CARE packages), and Tito (who has kindly accepted $900 million from us, and voted recently with Russia on the Hungarian resolutions...
...investigate" the troubled Syrian situation, Nasser announced appointment of a three-man committee, including his police boss, Zakaria Mohieddin, and Vice President Akram Hourani, the Baath Socialist leader who rushed his country into union with Egypt last year precisely to avert a Communist takeover...
...that Gamal Abdel Nasser persists in calling Victory Day-actually the anniversary of the withdrawal of the unbeaten British and French troops from Suez two years ago-has become an Egyptian holiday. Last week it was observed with massed schoolboy gymnastics and by the symbolic refloating of one of the ships sunk to block the canal. It was also marked by a speech from a somewhat subdued Nasser, who for the first time attacked the Communists. His oratory hardly matched the invective he has expended on the West, but it was a start...
...after Nasser's speech, Damascus' Communist newspaper Al Noor went out of business. Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash, the leading Communist in the Arab world, went underground. Nasser's Syrian proconsul, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, was more emphatic than Nasser. "The Communist Party has shown its real self," he said. "Its attitude is treason to the Arab cause and a dagger's stab directed by people who do not represent the real face of the Syrian region...
...Nasser had decided at last that he was in jeopardy from the Communists, he was moving cautiously. At week's end there were many rumors but little evidence of Communist arrests in Syria. He carefully made no mention at all of the even touchier situation created by the Communists in Iraq. Nasser's regime signed a contract with a Soviet delegation in Cairo for the building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between...